Sentences with phrase «such electrical pulses»

Biophysicist Benoit Roux of the University of Chicago recently used the world's fastest supercomputer — Jaguar, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee — to see how each of the protein's 350,000 atoms would react to such electrical pulses.

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Created by startup Halo Neuroscience, which is backed by top investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, the gizmo, «beams a flow of electrical pulses to the brain's motor cortex,» Christina Farr writes.

The hope is to find the equivalent neurons in people, and then to work out how to suppress them, via drugs or electrical pulses, in order to relieve itchiness caused by skin problems such as scabies, eczema and psoriasis.

The paper reports new details about the procedure, such as the method used to transfer the mitochondria: freezing and heating the embryo before using an electrical pulse to fuse the mother's nucleus into the donor egg.

In the study, the researchers show that after two to four weeks of 3 - D culture, the resulting muscle cells form muscle fibers that contract and react to external stimuli such as electrical pulses and biochemical signals mimicking neuronal inputs just like native muscle tissue.

Previous research showed that sending electrical pulses through the tongue activated the neural network for balance; such activation may shore up the circuitry weakened by MS.

Some fish, such as the electric ray (Torpedo nobiliana), stun their prey with huge electrical discharges, while others sense their surroundings with a stream of weak pulses — sometimes more than 1000 a second.

It's the mass migration of such holes that creates the large electrical currents responsible for generating the low - frequency magnetic pulses that make their way to detectors on Earth's surface, they say.

During these experiments, Bensmaia and his team manipulated various features of the electrical pulse train, such as its amplitude, frequency and duration, and noted how the interaction of each of these factors affected the animals» ability to detect the signal.